What Makes a (Graphics) Systems Paper Beautiful

As with all good research papers, the intellectual contribution of a systems paper is much more in the ideas and wisdom the paper contains, and much less about the specific artifact (the implementation) it describes. Problem definition: a good systems paper describes a system’s requirements in terms of goals, non-goals, and constraints. Example 3: Google’s recent HDR+ paper expresses the system requirements as a set of guiding principles for determining what algorithms were candidates for inclusion in an modern smartphone camera application: be run fast enough to provide immediate feedback, do not require human tweaking, and never produce output that looks worse than a traditional photo.

Source: graphics.stanford.edu